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Online Status	OFFLINE
Member Since	06/05/2008 15:29:04
Last Online	02/12/2008 14:29:35

From:	Iceland
Gender:	Male
Date of Birth:	26.02.1979
Living In:	United States

Instrument(s):	Piano
About me:
Daniel Bjarnason graduated from the F.I.H. Music School in 2000 with a piano diploma. He went on to study composition and orchestral conducting at the Reykjavik College of Music and graduated from there in 2003. In 2007, Daniel graduated cum laude form the Freiburg University of Music where he studied orchestral conducting with professor Scott Sandmeier. He works equally as conductor and composer with various artists and orchestras and regularly conducts at the Icelandic Opera. He is one of the founders of the Isafold Chamber Orchestra and has since been its principal conductor and artistic director.
Website:	www.danielbjarnason.com

Compositions

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News and Activities

Activities:

2008

April 6.-15.
Icelandic Opera - Reykjavik
Cosi fan tutte

April 22.
Abbey Road - London
Sigur Rós and London Sinfonietta

April 27.
Langholtskirkja - Reykjavík
Cd release concert
Ísafold Chamber Orchestra

May 29.
Gershwin Hotel - New York
Premiere - new work
Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir - cello

June 2.-7.
Barcelona
Cadaques Competition

June 19.
Iðnó - Reykjavík
Benni Hemm Hemm and Ungfónía Orchestra

July 21.-25.
Royal Opera House Covent Garden - London
Operagenesis Project

August 8.
Kjarvalstaðir - Reykjavík
Ísafold Chamber Orchestra

August 30. - Sept. 5.
Oslo
Young Nordic Music Days

Nov. 29.
Reykjavík
Ísafold Chamber Orchestra w. Ólöf Arnalds,
Pétur Ben and Nico Muhly.

Education

Degree Courses:
• Diploma - Künstlerische Ausbildung (cum laude) in Orchestral Conducting from the Freiburg University of Music • B.Mus. in Composition, and a Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Reykjavík Music College, spring 2003 • Solo Classical Piano Diploma from The F.I.H. Music College, Reykjavík, spring 2000 • Matriculation Examination -depts. of mathematics and music- Östre Borgerdydskole, Copenhagen 1997.
Masterclasses:
• “Operagenesis” project in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, 2007-2008. • “Dirigierpodium Baden-Württemberg” - Masterclasses 2004-2006 (Württembergischen Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Kurpfälzischen Kammerorchester, Südwestdeutschen Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz) • Young Nordic Music Festival 2007 in Reykjavik and 2003 in Oslo. Seminars and lectures with Brian Ferneyhough. • Takefu International Music Festival 2002. Seminars and lectures with composers Toshio Hosokawa and Younghi Pagh Pan. • Voix Nouvelles composition seminar in Royaumont, France in September 2002 Teachers: Brian Ferneyhough, Theo Loevendie, Jonathan Harvey and the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam – conductor Ed Spaanjard. • Masterclass with Christian Eggen and the Oslo Sinfonietta working on 20th century repertoire, June 2002.

Discography

Title:	Ísafold Chamber Orchestra
Year of Release:	2007
Label:	12tónar
Notes:
Bent Sörensen The Weeping White Room (2002) Toru Takemitsu Tree Line (1988) Arnold Schönberg 6 kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 (1911), arr. Bernhard Wulff Haukur Tómasson PAR (2006) http://12tonar.grapewire.net/artist/427 www.isafold.net